NYT

A drone launched by the Islamic Resistance of Iraq struck the port city of Eilat. In the north, the top Israeli general told troops to prepare for a possible incursion into Lebanon.

With fears growing of a wider regional war in the Middle East, the United States, European allies and Arab nations were working to broker a 21-day pause in the fighting.

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Hours after the Ukrainian president appealed for the West’s continued support, Russia’s authoritarian leader, Vladimir V. Putin, moved to significantly ease the circumstances under which his country might counter with nuclear weapons.

Serhiy Zhadan, 50, is a beloved Ukrainian poet as well as a novelist, lyricist and rock star. Furious over the invasion, he enlisted to fight even as his band still plays and his readings fill halls.

A top Israeli military official hinted to soldiers of a possible ground invasion as the United States and France drafted a cease-fire proposal to try to stave off a broader conflict.

Despite the danger, older residents, firefighters, medics and a few small-business owners chose to stay put in Kiryat Shmona, the northernmost Israeli city near the border with Lebanon.

Both parties are focused on oppression of China’s Uyghur minority but use different tactics in pushing the Biden administration to do more.

The Iran-backed militants have perhaps the largest arsenal of any armed group in the world, excluding governments, experts say.

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Germany, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands said they will take the Taliban to the U.N.’s highest court because of its harsh restrictions on Afghan women.

Canada’s Liberals are reeling from a string of setbacks, even as the party survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday.

In his first interview with Western media since becoming president of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye said the United Nations has to change to reflect changing world demographics.

Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies.

The Ukrainian leader aims to present President Biden with a strategy to improve his country’s position ahead of any peace negotiations with Russia.

Israel said it was striking Hezbollah targets with “high intensity” to keep the campaign as short as possible, as the Lebanese militants maintained their own cross-border barrage.

The authorities in Spain said they had arrested five people who posed as the famous American actor online and swindled two women out of more than $350,000.

Iran says Israel wants to trap it into a direct conflict by bombing Hezbollah, even as a new Iranian president tries outreach to the West.

After years of decline, Lebanon is ill-equipped to deal with a wave of displaced people. One family left their farm and found themselves homeless in Beirut.

The missile fired from Lebanon was the first time Hezbollah had launched an attack aimed at Tel Aviv, the military said.